DAYTONA BEACH, FL.- – The Museum of Arts & Sciences is presenting John James Audubon’s universally appealing works. The MOAS collection boasts 75 ornithological examples, 34 engraved (after Audubon’s original watercolor studies) by Robert Havell Jr., the most sensitive of all Audubon’s collaborators (1827‐38). “We have a very important collection of Audubon works,” states Chief Curator Cynthia Duval. The Musuem’s collection not only includes a wide range of Audubon’s famous studies of birds, but also the much rarer quadrupeds which were done in a variety of mediums. The most noteworthy piece in the collection may actually be an oil ‐ The
Bridled Weasel. It is rare to find an original Audubon oil of an animal. Importantly, correspondence between the naturalist and his son, as well as journal entries, is on exhibit. John James Audubon (1785‐1851) was a self‐tau